I've been sleepless for the last couple of nights trying to get
Webgear aironet 2.4 GHz wireless ethernet modem to work with windows.
And after two days of fruitless wrangling with the hardware, I tried
the obvious (duh!) - with Linux on both ends.
And it worked on the first try! I get a bandwith of 1.2 Mbps (2 Mbps
is the advertized max). For more info on the hardware checkout:
http://www.webgear.com/ It's back ordered on most e-tailer websites.
Costs about $150 in the US.
Win98 recognizes the card, but doesn't talk to the network. If I try
to change the IRQ (to the one that works on Linux), it hangs win98.
Win NT gives the usual BSOD. FreeBSD has a driver that works on 3.4,
but 4.0 support is not there yet.
Great, affordable wireless networking solution I must say. Watch out
for driver problems if you're using it with windows.
-Arun
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